HMS Garland was a schooner that the Royal Navy purchased in the West Indies in 1798 to act as a tender to Prince of Wales, the flagship of the Commander-in-Chief on the Leeward Islands station.

The 39 men included a detachment of 13 soldiers from the French garrison at Roseau, and ten volunteer seamen from merchant ships there, all sent by Dominica's governor.

[4] On 15 January 1801, while the 20-gun post-ship Daphne, 18-gun ship-sloops Cyane and Hornet, and schooner Garland (tender to Daphne), were at an anchor in the harbour of the Saintes, they observed a convoy of French coasters, escorted by an armed schooner, sailing towards Vieux-Fort, Guadeloupe.

[5] Two days later, in the afternoon, the British observed the French schooner Éclair, of four long 4-pounders, twenty 1½ pounder brass swivels, and 45 men, the escort of the convoy in question, put into Trois-Rivières, and anchor under the protection of one principal battery and two smaller flanking ones.

The next day, 18 January, which was as early as the breeze would permit, Garland ran alongside Éclair and Mackenzie and Peachey, with 30 men, boarded and carried the French schooner in the face of the batteries.

The French had one man killed and two drowned, and nine men wounded, including the lieutenant de vaissau commanding Eclair.